AIBU to think that a £15 per head deal with The Sun should cost just that

[Fumingatthesun]

And you shouldn't receive an invoice for another £80 compulsory charges from the accommodation owners directly?

Have I missed something, or is this standard practice for these deals. Have never booked before?

Maybe the 80 extra is for the rest of the body?

You buy the Sun?

Ha! Nah, just got he codes online to do it. Don't read any papers.

It's not all compulsory. You can take your own bed linen, and you don't have to have entertainment passes if you do not wish to use the facilities. It's still cheap. The campsite closest to where I live charges £25 per night for 2 adults in one tent!
Which site have you booked?

Done a few of these, not with the Sun, but with other offers. Yes, it's always pretty much the same every time. They do usually say somewhere that there is a service charge per unit per night and an entertainment pass charge per person (this varies at each site).

Remember, the only thing you are obliged to pay is the service charge.

You do not have to buy passes if you don't want to use the facilities and I never pay for the linen, just take my own.

The £15/head will be available in some parks on some dates ie where there's no service charge payable. Entertainment passes are optional, if you only want to use the accommodation as a base and not use the bar, pool, etc. And bedlinen is optional - take your own.

Sorry, but it does make these things clear if you read the small print. It is annoying though.

It does say in the small print somewhere about all the other charges. But like others have said, you don't have to pay some of them. And it's still a cheaper than full price holiday. :)

Now you understand the nature of these offers. They offer something that seems to good to be true and it turns out the offer is too good to be true.

At least you don't have to pay it all at once.
I thought the charges were clear.
And what the others have said

Ah thanks for the info. They had made them all look compulsory. I wasn't expecting any other charges, so was a bit of a shock. I will bring my own bed linen. Was going to anyway.

We are going to a park on the east coast. Only for the weekend. DCs can't wait!

which park on the east coast? We're off to butlins and skeggy, can't wait

Me, Mum and the DC are staying in Looe in Cornwall, but sadly not until Oct. We have 'sun' holidays at least once, sometimes twice a year.

The Sun offers are really good and I won't ever blush at using them or buying the Sun. I know loads of families who just wouldn't be able to go on hols without these vouchers.

We went to a caravan with Sun holidays and it was lovely. Basic but clean and with good weather we only used it as a base anyway.

Price wise, it didn't come to anything like £9 a head as advertised. In fact the total came to £284. However, you try and find a nice caravan for less than that in the school holidays in July in the UK for a family of four- we were chuffed.

This is why we need to read the terms and conditions. But if you don't take the passes then you can't use the pool etc.

I found it cheaper to check direct with the site before booking these cheap holidays. This year it was cheaper to book direct with the company than go through the mail or sun deals.

ds1 (11) brought the sun the other day for the lego thing.
deal was he had to go to the shop, use his money, and if anyone asked why he had it he had to say mummy is not involved.

never done a sun holiday but heard plenty of people not very satisified with them.

Very true Grooveee. The £9 a head price only refers to a 3 or 4 night holiday too, so if you want a week you have to book two holidays consecutively to make up 7 nights.

If you want a 3 night holiday in an unfashionable spot in cold-ish weather with no entertainment and you want to take your own duvet covers and pillow cases, then yeah, you probably could end up just paying the £9 each per night.

If you wanted 7 nights, somewhere good, in July, with a pool and didn't want to make beds as soon as you get there, then yes, it will all tot up!

YABU dealing with the Sun

cheesesarnie- don't be a snob- we've done three, they were great and I am university educated!

a snob!

just realised thats the second time ive been called a snob in two days!

yesterday it was because i used the word confronted whilst explaining an arguement. today is because i dont read the sun.

LOL at cheese- I wasn't expecting you to read it! - I only buy it for the vouchers! Although I was quite worried the other day as I was doing the Sun Suduko at MIL's and really struggled with it.

that's ok then.
i'm starting uni in september, got worried that i may have to start buying the sun!

(i love suduko)